David Gergen

It tells me that this President, his narcissism knows no bounds. ... he's got a new swagger about him these last few days.

Donald Trump himself called for the report to be released.

I think Adam Schiff is on -- I think he will have a lot of strong public support if he gets to the point where he feels he has to subpoena or write up a narrative.

It's not normal for a president to be saying stuff like this.

the central issue here is whether the president yet again is putting his faith in the world's dictators and authoritarians over his own intelligence agencies.

The issue increasingly for the public is, is he fit for the office. Is he morally fit to lead the country and to lead the world?

It's dishonorable to treat the family, the Warmbier family, this way.

I have been surprised, frankly, that the White House hasn't provided counterprogramming. I mean, the whole point of this trip was to get big headlines for the president, so I think there was some foundation for the Congress moving ahead on…

I think what Cohen did was very helpful to the Democrats because he put a lot more fuel in their tank to do further investigations.

We should wait and you can leave it -- you know, by implication, he's agreeing with Burr that he has seen anything so far, but he's not saying that.

I think that's quite a good point, Anderson.

Senator Burr has said, we've had a lot of hearings and we haven't seen any evidence of collusion.

Does he intend to use his emergency powers to get the difference? Let's say they put in $2 billion in the agreement and he's still $3.7 short of what he wanted.

I think that would cause great heartburn for the Democrats and would split the Republicans.

Mr. President, his next move is up to you. You will be helpful tonight in El Paso if he did not go after the Democrats hammer in tongue and take the low road.

There is a deep suspicion, especially among Democrats and independents that there is something in that that he's holding back for a good reason, that it would be damaging for him.

These are the fruits of the midterms. And for Trump, they're very bitter fruits.

Not much. And I don't think Mitch McConnell has much faith either but he's trying to do the best he can to prevent another disaster, political disaster for the President and for the Republican Party.

What McConnell is telling him is it's not just that you'll get a resolution out of Senate that disapproves this, but you're going to have a lot of Republican who are going to vote for that disapproval and it really split your party.

Seventy percent believe that he's done something that is unethical.

He hasn't done anything serious about Ukraine, that is just -- it hasn't changed anything.

I don't want to get into a big argument but he has not been tough on Russia. He's been in alignment with Vladimir Putin.

There's never been a shutdown.

He's got himself in a corner. He is desperately looking for a way out. He's turning to this ridiculous idea of taking money away from Puerto Rico and California and other places and putting it on what is not a serious crisis.

It's totally irresponsible for the White House to continue the charade when so many federal workers are about to lose their paychecks.